discarded lovers with charred eyesfall
asleep on the green benchthey don't care any more

your
vision is blurredbutyou don't need any help

Dilip Chitre is a poet, fiction-writer,
playwright, painter and filmmaker. His honours, awards
and prizes include the Sahitya AKademi Award. He is Fellow
of The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New
Delhi; Writer-in-Residence at the Villa Waldberta, Feldafing,
Munich National Emeritus; Fellow of the Union Ministry
of Human Resource Development, New Delhi; Writer-in-Residence
and German Academic Exchange Fellow at the South Asia
Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany;
Prix Special du Jury at the Festival des Trois Continents,
Nantes, France; Fellow and Writer-in-Residence at the
International Writing Program of the University of Iowa,
Iowa City, Iowa. He lives in Pune and writes in English
and Marathi and also translates
either way, especially poetry. He is currently Honorary
Editor of the quarterly journal 'New Quest'(Mumbai/Pune,India)
and Honorary President of the 'Sontheimer Cultural Association'---a
folk heritage foundation in Pune, India.